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Supporting access and understanding through terminology
Terminology Services consists of:
- Repository of environmental terms, their relationships, definitions, and relevant metadata (e.g., synonyms)
- Tool for the creation and management of vocabulary resources (e.g., glossaries, taxonomies, thesauri)*
- Wiki-based platform for collaborative vocabulary development
Additionally, Terminology Services includes:
- Access to key EPA vocabularies, including EPA’s Web Taxonomy
- Web services to import and export vocabularies*
- Ability to publish vocabularies in human and machine readable/open formats*
- "My Glossaries" allows users to create customized glossaries
- Training and documentation (i.e., best practices and FAQs) for developing vocabularies
- Access to vocabulary development expertise
*Synaptica KMS Software is utilized for these tasks.